The Experience of Being 70 Years or Older A Group Relations event to celebrate 70 years of the Tavistock Institute at the Re-Imagining Human Relations in our Time Festival, October 2017.

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Acknowledgements

The inspiration, design and delivery of the GR70 event was the result of the thinking and efforts of a number of people. These include Juliet Scott, the Director of the Tavistock Institute’s Festival marking the 70^th anniversary of the establishment of the Tavistock Institute, who encouraged and supported the event from start to finish; Leonie Sher who sparked the original idea in me of running a group relations event for people 70 and over to match the age of the Institute; Meg Davies, Project Manager of the Festival who skilfully negotiated our entry and use of the Garden Museum; Charlie Bambrough who managed the pre-event administration and served as administrator and boundary-keeper during the event; Hannah Walsh, who assisted with the dissemination and marketing of the event. I am particularly grateful to my colleague staff members David Armstrong, Olya Khaleelee, William Halton and Deirdre Moylan, some of whom came out of retirement to serve on the staff, for their love of this work and willingness to donate their time and their wisdom to work on this important topic. Their contribution to this paper is gratefully acknowledged. Our working histories go back a long way and it was a pleasure reassembling and getting into role again. And finally, I salute the 34 participants who came to learn and in the process gave hugely of themselves, their experiences and their hopes in shared endeavour for a better future.

The full monograph, from which this shortened paper was compiled, can be accessed at the bottom of the page of the following link:

https://www.tavinstitute.org/news/70-expanding-possibilities/